Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partners burned-out husks, dead or wishing they were. A novel of letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. The R.S.C. staging, which won the 1986 Olivier award for best play, the West End's equivalent of the Tony, has been imported intact. Last week it set Broadway ablaze...
...next week to see Secretary of State George Shultz. The Reagan Administration has been lukewarm about an international conference, but American diplomats in the region have sought dutifully to mediate a workable plan. The last thing Washington wants is to be pitched into the midst of a political battle royal...
...supposed Saudi prince, Ibrahim Bin Abdul Aziz Saud Masoud certainly had a name to befit a royal title. But what impressed Lieut. Colonel Oliver North even more was the prince's offer to donate a hefty sum of money to aid the Nicaraguan contras. North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty...
BUSINESS: A battle royal rages over banking' s separation of powers...
...case won immediate fame as the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Last week it threatened to become one of the most bewildering and perhaps most bitterly contested business crises in modern memory. The $10 billion legal battle royal between Texaco and Pennzoil clearly entered a new and murky phase after the country's third-ranking oil company (1986 sales: $32.6 billion) made its bombshell decision on Sunday, April 12, to file for Chapter 11 protection. Whichever side was right in the dispute, the horrendous legal tangle surrounding the two firms vastly increased -- along with the business uncertainty...